bioarm

1. 1.

   any weapon usable in biological warfare

   “they feared use of the smallpox virus as a bioweapon”

   Synonymsbioweaponbiological weapon

   Broaderweapon of mass destruction

   NarrowerBacillus anthracisclostridium perfringensaflatoxinbotulinstaphylococcal enterotoxin B

Other forms of bioarm

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bioarm

What does bioarm mean?

bioarm means "any weapon usable in biological warfare".

How many syllables are in bioarm?

bioarm has 3 syllables: bi-o-arm. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for bioarm?

Close synonyms include bioweapon, biological weapon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bioarm a common word?

bioarm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.